Our four years at Hillsdale teach us transcendental truths, but something’s missing if we graduate without having learned to love our friends in their suffering. Clare Ansberry wrote that, as a nation, “we aren’t very good at dealing with grief. In fact, we might be getting worse at it.” In the Feb. 16 article for...
President Donald Trump is working to erase national debt, but it comes with a price: Children will no longer make wishes and toss pennies into public fountains. President Trump declared during the Feb. 9 Super Bowl that the United States will stop minting pennies. With all of the changes Trump is bringing — from renaming...
Read a book to your teenager. Future parents might gawk at that sentence. Isn’t a teenager too old for something as childish as his parents reading to him? Current parents might blanch as well, believing they’ve done their time. Shouldn’t fighting a decade in the trenches of the ABC’s and children’s literature be enough...
The Nation’s report card, also known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, shows a decline in reading scores among children in America. Between 2022 and 2024, not a single state saw improvement in reading scores. As literacy rates continue to decline in the United States, young people are struggling to complete their education, get...
Anyone paying attention to the news the past couple of weeks has probably concluded that there’s “something going on” with aviation right now. This year has already seen two high-profile wrecks in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and a miraculously non-fatal accident in Toronto. The same people who’ve caught a whiff of “something going on” have...